“The rehearsal and devoid of rigor”: CNews pinned by the Arcom for his cover of the Marine Le Pen trial

By Bruna Fernandez | Journalist

Born at the time of “unknown”, Bruna grew up between Brazil and France. As a child, she enriches her imagination in front of the large and the small screen. Having become a journalist, she goes behind the camera and works for several shows. A small world that she likes to dissect for puremedias.

The audiovisual regulator reproaches the Canal+ group information chain a partial and excessive processing of the conviction of Marine Le Pen, assimilated to a victim of a “legal plot”.

Extract from “Morandini Live” on March 31, the day of the verdict of the Marine Le Pen © CNews trial

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New reverse for CNews. On Thursday, Arcom announced that it was alerted about the coverage by the chain of the National Rally (RN) trial on March 31, 2025. In a statement dated August 14, the authority said it has noted that, on several flagship channels of the chain – “Live morgini Or “Midi News” -, the speaking had “Tandoned to highlight without measuring or moderation, the supposedly inducted, even illegal character of the penalty of ineligibility pronounced against the president of the RN group in the National Assembly“.

“Marine Le Pen, C8, same fight”

On the air, Marine Le Pen has often been described as the victim of a “legal plot“. According to the regulator, these positions”repeated and devoid of rigor“have not been the subject of any contradiction in set, which characterizes one”treatment lacking in measure as rigor“and one”Failure to control antenna“. Consequence: CNews is recalled to order and summoned to demonstrate”increased vigilance “ In the future, in application of its agreement and articles 3 of the deliberation of April 18, 2018 and 2-2-1 of its obligations.

According to “Le Monde”, The day after the verdict, Pascal Praud resumed on cnews A parallel already heard the day before: “Nine people had decided to ban C8. This time, three judges stopped Mrs. Le Pen.“For the editorialist, “Marine Le Pen, C8, same fight“, thus comparing the court decision against the ex-candidate for far-right presidential elections in the case of parliamentary assistants of the National Front when the chain is closed following numerous sanctions aimed at” touched by my post “.

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Aurélien Saintoul, rebellious deputy and rapporteur of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on TNT in 2024, had seized the regulator on March 31. In his letter addressed to the president of the Arcom, he reproached Cnews for having broadcast four testimonies of viewers “without nuance or perspective, taking up the main elements of language of far -right political leaders“.

According to information from the “world”, these sequences came from videos provided by CVOX, provider of “citizens” content: out of 187 received, 134 were validated, all the responsibility against the court decision. For the deputy, the editorial system put in place, with QR code and calls for reactions, was no longer reported with journalism but “a communication operation in favor of Marine Le Pen and the National Rally“. He then denounced a chain transformed into “Official propaganda organ of the extreme right“.

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